Nottingham City Care Privacy and Cookies Policy

Consent

Your use of this web site signifies your consent to us collecting and using personal information about you as specified below in accordance with this policy and in using this website you are consenting to cookies being set on your device. If you are a registered user, this policy will be applied subject to any particular limitations or choices you express in your User Profile.

How we use your information

Once you have completed the online referral form the information you have provided will be held by Nottingham CityCare Partnership (hereafter CityCare). The purpose for collecting the information will be to process referrals to community services provided by CityCare. The mandatory data fields will also assist CityCare in collecting data about patients and/or clients in which it is commissioned and/or legally obliged to collect.

You are agreeing that any information contained in this referral form will be handled by CityCare staff within the Single Point of Access Team for the purposes of processing the referral. Thereafter the information contained within the referral will be shared appropriately with the relevant CityCare services/teams for consideration by the clinical team. All information provided in the referral will also be accessible by your G.P and any decision made will also be communicated with your G.P accordingly.

All information collected via the online referral form will be kept confidential and secure.

For a further and more detailed explanation about how CityCare handles information please refer to the web link below;

http://www.nottinghamcitycare.nhs.uk/about-citycare/keeping-your-information-confidential/

About Cookies

A cookie is a small piece of information that is stored on your computer's hard drive by your web browser and cannot do your computer any harm. When you revisit the associated website the server will recognise the cookie, which gives it information about your last visit(s). In other words, a cookie allows a website to remember choices and submitted information so that you will not need to reset certain user-defined features or re-enter details. Cookies are either permanent (usually with a long term expiry date) or are only used in the current session and cease to exist when the browser is shut down (so called 'session cookies').

How cookies are used on this website

The following table lists the cookies that may be used on this website.

Cookie Issued By Expires Purpose
ASP.NET_SessionId Nottingham City Care On browser close Determines visitor session
ARRAffinity, ARRAffinitySameSite Nottingham City Care On browser close ARRAffinity cookie allows the service to choose the right instance established by a user to deliver subsequent requests made by that user.
CookieControl Nottingham City Care On browser close Used to track a users preferences for managing cookies.

To secure the flawless functioning of the website we would recommend allowing at least the setting of session cookies as they are essential for access to authenticated parts of the site - for example where you can contribute resources.

If you choose to have your email address or username remembered between visits to the site, you opt in to the use of cookies by selecting the checkbox on the login page.

Allowing or declining cookies

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org. If you delete cookies it may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Links to other websites

This privacy policy does not cover the links within this site linking to other websites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit.

Changes to this privacy policy

We keep our privacy policy under regular review. This privacy policy was last updated on 8th January 2013.